Events in Thorndon

WORKING BEE 8th JUNE 2019 – QUEENS PARK

With the Thorndon Residents Association’s support, local resident Peter Steel has been working to encourage the City Council to do a proper job of maintaining Queens Park and to start to remedy the neglect and deterioration of the park that has occurred over the past few decades.

It is clear that the Council want to see that there is genuine community interest. We now have a Memorandum of Understanding with the Council which allows work in the park by a community group and we have been able to arrange with the Council a time and date for a working bee:

– this Saturday 8 June between 10 am and noon.

As the first working bee, this will allow us to start the process of restoring the park and show the Council that there is real interest in it.

The focus will be on picking up rubbish, trimming back the undergrowth that intrudes onto various tracks, and starting on clearing of areas that used to be lawn and have become covered in tradescantia (wandering willie) and other weeds.

We will meet at the top of the steps which run up from the Grant Road/Park Street intersection to Wadestown Road.

We want this to be an enjoyable occasion. Contributions to morning tea/coffee would be very welcome.

We hope to see you next Saturday.